On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:57:33AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:42:10AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Let me mitigate that complaint by observing:
> > 1) Maybe no one is sure whose bailiwick it is;
>
> We need people who are very good at legal stuff and are willing to take
> it on - telling us about it won't do much good when we're all flat-out
> busy with other stuff, with very little time to look at X.
Well -- believe it or not -- there are things I enjoy more than being a
license janitor, too.
It's miserable but necessary work. It seems like there is no divergence
of opinion here, just the lack of a bulldog to ensure it's regarded as
release-critical (for X.Org/freedesktop.org).
[Debrix not including equivlent driver functionality as XOrg]
> > It does not, and it may be quite some time before it does.
>
> It will not; the 'independent' in DIX is a misnomer designed to convince
> naive idiots new to X that you can put the Xorg DDX on top of the KDrive
> DIX and have stuff just work. Fools.
Thanks for the clarification.
--
G. Branden Robinson | When we call others dogmatic, what
Debian GNU/Linux | we really object to is their
branden@debian.org | holding dogmas that are different
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | from our own. -- Charles Issawi